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According to a production directory in the 9 Mar 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World, the starting date for The Sap was 4 Feb 1929.
A previous adaptation of the William A. Grew play was made as a silent film by Warner Bros. in 1926. Also entitled The Sap , that production was directed by Erle Kenton and starred Kenneth Harlan and Heinie Conklin (See ...
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According to a production directory in the 9 Mar 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World, the starting date for The Sap was 4 Feb 1929.
A previous adaptation of the William A. Grew play was made as a silent film by Warner Bros. in 1926. Also entitled The Sap , that production was directed by Erle Kenton and starred Kenneth Harlan and Heinie Conklin (See Entry).
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Bill Small, a smalltown inventor in South Dakota, is full of impractical ideas, though he is defended by his wife, Betty, against her sister Jane and brother-in-law Ed Mason. When Ed confesses that he has been using the bank's funds for speculation, Bill, acting on a hunch, forces cashier Jim Belden to confess that he has been doing the same thing; but Bill is humiliated when his shoe polish ruins the shoes of banker Sprague. Ed and Jim aid him in appropriating $50,000; just as they are on the verge of being discovered, Bill reports that he has played the market and won, and he returns to his wife a ...
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Bill Small, a smalltown inventor in South Dakota, is full of impractical ideas, though he is defended by his wife, Betty, against her sister Jane and brother-in-law Ed Mason. When Ed confesses that he has been using the bank's funds for speculation, Bill, acting on a hunch, forces cashier Jim Belden to confess that he has been doing the same thing; but Bill is humiliated when his shoe polish ruins the shoes of banker Sprague. Ed and Jim aid him in appropriating $50,000; just as they are on the verge of being discovered, Bill reports that he has played the market and won, and he returns to his wife a hero.
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Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies in his palatial Florida home, Xanadu, after uttering the single word “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane ... >>

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